Avó

surname · Latin script

Meaning: grandmother

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Avó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 329K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • LVLatvia1 in 941K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

242 people, 2020

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 329K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Avo in US United States, ES Spain, EE Estonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

grandmother

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Avó counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Avó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2421 in 1.4M201Avo20
SE Sweden311 in 329K31—1
LV Latvia21 in 941K2——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
ES Spain———Avo9
EE Estonia——listedAvo4

242 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Avó is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Syria, Canada, Armenia

    Languages: English, Armenian, Arabic

    Also written Avo, Ավո, Avô, Avò

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Avo, Āvo, Avô

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Avo

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Avo

  • Czech name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Avo

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Avo, Avô

  • Hungarian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Avo, Avò

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Avó is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, grandmother, female grandparent

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Galician, grandfather

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Avó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Avó mean, and where does it come from?
grandmother Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
In which country does Avó have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 242 people named Avó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avo.
Where is Avó most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Avó is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 329 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Avó?
In the United States, the national register counted 242 people named Avó in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Avó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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